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those payments are for services provided in the context of existing infrastructure, not for the infrastructure itself.
same logic applies to education.
same logic applies to police, military, etc.
same logic applies to firms as well---the rely on extensive infrastructure in order to be able to operate. they don't create that infrastructure. infrsstructure at the levels of production and distribution.
this sort of thing is a big part of the explanation for the more-or-less simultaneous rise of capitalism and the modern nation-state.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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